Shannon
An autonomous penetration-testing system that coordinates reconnaissance, exploitation, verification, and reporting agents.
Editorial research profile
What problem does this project address?
Coordinates security specialists for analysis, defense, authorized testing, incident work, or cyber simulation.
An autonomous penetration-testing system that coordinates reconnaissance, exploitation, verification, and reporting agents.
Multi-agent core
How do the agents coordinate?
Pentesting
Pentesting is recorded as a coordination characteristic in this project's reviewed taxonomy.
Security
Security is recorded as a coordination characteristic in this project's reviewed taxonomy.
Application fit
Where can it be useful?
Representative use cases
- Aggregate specialist findings during defensive investigation.
- Run authorized security exercises in controlled environments.
- Simulate attackers and defenders for training or research.
Why it may be worth examining
- Provides a concrete end-to-end workflow that can be studied, adapted, or evaluated against a specific task.
- The project exposes 2 recorded coordination characteristics, making their combination easier to examine.
- Its self-hosting classification supports code inspection, internal experiments, and tighter data boundaries.
Engineering adoption guide
What should you verify before adoption?
Project-level trade-offs
- The included workflow and assumptions may be tightly coupled to its demonstration domain or data.
- The project was active at the latest editorial review, but release cadence and issue health should still be checked.
- Multi-agent results depend heavily on models, prompts, tools, data, and evaluation design; revalidate with representative tasks.
Technical and licensing facts
- Recorded as self-hostable; verify model, storage, and external service dependencies before adoption.
- The primary implementation language is Python; assess extension and maintenance cost against your team's stack.
- The recorded license is AGPL-3.0; confirm the repository's full license text and dependency licenses before formal use.
Recommended evaluation checklist
- 1 Use only on systems and environments where testing is explicitly authorized.
- 2 Enforce tool allowlists, isolation, logging, and human approval.
- 3 Validate findings independently before remediation or escalation.
Traceable information
Research basis and freshness
Sources used for this profile
- Official GitHub repository and public metadata
- Official project website or documentation when available
- Repository-verifiable multi-agent mechanism and project scope
- This directory's normalized taxonomy, status, and adoption dimensions
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-20
- Status
- Active
- GitHub Stars
- Not synced
- Archived
- No
Note: This page supports open-source discovery and engineering evaluation. It is not security, medical, legal, or financial advice. Capabilities and maintenance status may change after review; verify the official repository and documentation before adoption.
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